Never buying Creative products again.. >.<
July 15, 2008
My “dream-machine” PC at home had been having a strange issue for the past year. During startup, it would often hang at the Vista initialization screen. Usually it would resolve itself when I reset the computer. But recently, it was taking 2 or more resets to get the blasted thing to start correctly. ( not to mention BSODs cropping up in a new machine )
All the while I thought it was a hard-drive problem, ( maybe something to do with cold startups…who knows about these mechanical thingies… ), but last week, I noticed that my Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card was disabled after a particularly bad number of resets (3? 4?). 1 + 1 = 3? I pulled out the blasted thing from my computer and went to the in-built soundcard on my motherboard and my computer has not hanged on me ever since ( ‘ever since’ defined as 3 days before this message ) . GG.
Conclusion: Creative fails. Srsly.
